Is a night mare

If she is elected to the Senate, it will shake my faith in mankind.

Horrors!

A slower-witted, more obnoxious, ill-tempered Michelle Bachmann.

expand national service programs."

I'm going to look into the Believe in Service group, especially if they support a non military component to national service.

... when it was started by JFK in the early 60's. Nowadays almost all of the PC recruits are recent college grads, but the original intention was to sign up retirees and older Americans for volunteer service. Still a great program too.

equal value on non military service as it is with military service.

I've always been a big fan of the PC which gave us a lot of good politicians in the sixties and seventies. I believe that this would contribute to diminishing the empathy deficits that trouble us now in our leaders.

In fact why couldn't we have a diplomatic academy and a public service academy on a par with West Point or Annapolis?

would do a lot of things- one of which, give young minds a breathing space to mature a bit before making decisions (education wise) that will affect them the rest of their lives.

out of the Navy, I was ready and as a result and unlike 60% of college graduates who work in fields outside their degrees, my career field worked well with my education.

I was as unready to choose a major and not particularly interested in studying hard enough to get a degree in Mechanical Engineering. On scholastic probation with a new 1-A draft card I joined the USAF. There I learned to study and was given the tools to earn a very good living as an electronic technician. I never went back to university as I was now a husband and father.

As a woman, one thing bothers me about this. It may SEEM fair to require the same two years for men and women, but a lot of women already miss out on years of their career if they choose to become mothers. Men can do whatever they like for thirty years and easily become a dad at 50. Women may have children at 35 and find it too difficult to juggle work and kids, and ppt torment ale time off; or they miss out on promotions whether by choice or by result of less availability.

So a two year deferral for women is not equal to a two year deferral for men.

How significant? Picture a woman graduating at age 22 and scaling back for kids at age 35..that’s 13 years. Getting out at age 24 cuts that down to 11 years. That’s an 18 percent reduction in career-building time. In addition, women are much more likely to end up as caregivers for their parents or sick relatives.

Not that all women become mothers and not that the service itself isn’t valuable. It is.
Some service is good for everyone, but flexibility or consideration ought to be given to the inherent differences between the sexes.

I'd like to see a diplomatic academy, or a "Foreign Service" academy. Even more importantly, I think it would be nice if voters tended to prefer candidates who had attended it. I'd like to see a political landscape where having some foreign service experience was considered a "stepping stone" for potential politicians.

I seem to remember we did have at one time an active form of seniors working with younger people.

He announced in April and did pretty well for a newbie to politics, but when a big figure in Tennessee politics decided to enter the arena against the Republicans...

... as the Repuke's candidate. This ignorant harpy is one of the worst House members ever, and would be the most beatable--a surefire Demo Senate pickup! I think even Corker might support Bredesen!

"A slower-witted, more obnoxious, ill-tempered Michelle Bachmann." Just never seeing her in any role is obviously to be desired.